How do you go after a GPL violator? Not to say that I'm against it but If you are that little guy in the shed typing out a brilliant FOSS project and some big software company finds out and develops a, closed source, commercial app from it; you still are the guy who hasn't enough money. How are you going to go after them? Ok, usually that is not the case, usually your project will reach some success and mass before attracting code robbers but still I'm not sure going after a GPL violator applies always.
Well they managed to Legally obtain Legally valid Patents for those Legally patented technologies. Wouldn't it be a shame if they just left them in the drawer?
Ohh, tripwire! Had totally forgotten it existed. But it's been some years from the last time I used it. Brilliant little program, Tripwire is great to have installed in production servers and my own PCs.
But it is less than useless when you get an infected windows machine to fix (which was my premise) since you will have no reference. What you can do is aggregate checksums from trusted sources and compile them into a knowledge base your command checks.
Once (before I made the effort to write up savetu.be) I had been called up by a friend that had installed a tube downloader (the copy/paste standalone program variety) on his PC that had almost completely overtaken the system with addware. It turned out that the youtube video that tutored him to install the program explicitly said "Ignore the antivirus alert, this isn't a virus"....
Embracing the penguin for the last half decade on my desktops I was quite amused one day when I visited a webradio portal that had been hacked and had scare adds on it saying that soAndSo.dll was infected on my machine.
I might be wrong here but I think looking for bad files isn't actually rocket science. Dismantling them, analyzing and countermeasuring them usually is the trickier part.
If I would have to go that route I probably would run checksum comparisons to accepted values for each file in the system. All files that turn up in that list and are not logs/media/cache are candidates. Then check all locations that contain files with autoexecution scripts and screen them for behavior I don't like.
After that you probably will have a lot to go on so good luck finding out what is wrong with all those files. On the other hand you can just quarantine them (aka move into another directory), put valid files into the slots and see what stops working.
This, plus the fact that scare headlines like HACKERS pwn teh Facebooks, the world as we know it is collapsing, we are all DOOMED tend to draw exponentially more attention than any alternative (albeit true) story.
One would argue that in the next generation the computer programming market will be much more mainstream than it is now. Computer programs and automated/reprogramable devices replace legacy utilities in a day to day basis, it is not far fetched to assume that a couple decades from now most low end jobs will be, low complexity, appliance programming instead of hammer bashing. After all it is documented that humans are getting better at abstract reasoning each generation, the move to a more demanding curriculum every now and then is a necessity.
... html5 mobile gaming company Moblyng are doing... hint - they've shut down in the last week after spending 10 million dollars of other peoples cash.
In their defense, investors should have been expecting that. Those guys are lying to the Mob, why would they think they were earnest with them?
I don't think that the copyright demise is that near. At least not compared to all the other candidates. Take finance for example, most people want to say that the financial crisis of 2008 is over but in truth all that politicians managed to do is hide it (well, they are politicians after all). Finance will break down again and soon, most probably with the welfare sector leading the charge this time.
With governments and politicians being reluctant to do anything progressive - less so if that means going against the hands that feed you - Copyright still has a stable throne. Also, I don't think that Copyright/Patents will ever dissolve. Most probably they will just evolve in some sort of abstract "fair compete" rules because, lets face it, total absence would mean that the giants the older system made would be given free reign to copy everyone. The problems with the patent system stem from the fact that the rules are much too literal, which in turn comes from the fact that the world wide legal system is based on the practice of following well defined rules.
It means that google is basing it's data from G+ it's own social network now. In fact google is kind of trying to lock all other social networks out lately. Not in some unfair way but I have to admit that I see google+ much more often on google related pages than on the free internet.
Example: google analytics shows social data from G+ for your sites now but I have no idea if there is a way to include social data from Facebook or Twitter aswell. Google search results give you options for G+ sharing but not for the other networks. Now this, that google is going to integrate your G+ interactions into your search results
Google have understood that social is kind of the web3.0 and is trying really hard to become the dominant entity in social interactions and this article is just a small part of the bigger picture.
IMO they are doing it wrong. To stay dominant in search - and let's face it that is where you go when your friends fail you - they should embrace the social Internet as a whole, not try to wall it into their own little piconet.
I am not sure if this is factually true. Even so lets assume that it is, I can think only of 3-4 FOSS developers that could actually push hard enough to get a GPL violator closed down. The most plausible outcome I can see is him being shrugged of and ignored with the self incriminating excuse that "This SOPA thing is only meant to close video sites"
Also lets hope the Mythbuntu fork works otherwise we are doomed to a life of manically moving around our hands in order to adjust the volume on our kinect enabled windows8910 TV.
It's up to manufacturers to pick what OS their TV runs...
Holly s*** it does sound weird.
On another note you are absolutely correct, this is just a 'sort of' prelude to the OS war that is coming to the world of the living room and will end up with the big battle over the kitchen appliances. Since, apparently, bread slicers are better when they have a GPU.
Ohh I can so see the Apple, Sony and Microsoft lawsuits! Microsoft: "All yor media playorz R belong to us!" Sony: "That's our look n feel right there!" Apple: "You have round corners!?!?!?!"
While, that is plausible you can't ignore the fact that step no. 5 is Microsoft restores Nokia share price to older height. How exactly would they do that?
In english it says that "This is a short recording of our work in q-levitation in a project inspired by the game wipe'out" It says that the demonstration is inspired by wipeout, not the quantum levitation research.
Also to GP who thinks this is a fake because it has a copyright disclaimer, the copyright disclaimer apparently references to all wipe'out IP, that is music, theming, the name wipe'out etc.
Anyway, I'm not saying that this isn't a fake. But if it is a fake I cannot see the telltales.
Slashdot Mirror
How do you go after a GPL violator? Not to say that I'm against it but If you are that little guy in the shed typing out a brilliant FOSS project and some big software company finds out and develops a, closed source, commercial app from it; you still are the guy who hasn't enough money. How are you going to go after them? Ok, usually that is not the case, usually your project will reach some success and mass before attracting code robbers but still I'm not sure going after a GPL violator applies always.
Well they managed to Legally obtain Legally valid Patents for those Legally patented technologies.
Wouldn't it be a shame if they just left them in the drawer?
Ohh, tripwire! Had totally forgotten it existed. But it's been some years from the last time I used it.
Brilliant little program, Tripwire is great to have installed in production servers and my own PCs.
But it is less than useless when you get an infected windows machine to fix (which was my premise)
since you will have no reference. What you can do is aggregate checksums from trusted sources
and compile them into a knowledge base your command checks.
Norton does...
Once (before I made the effort to write up savetu.be) I had been called up by a friend
that had installed a tube downloader (the copy/paste standalone program variety) on
his PC that had almost completely overtaken the system with addware.
It turned out that the youtube video that tutored him to install the program explicitly
said "Ignore the antivirus alert, this isn't a virus"....
Embracing the penguin for the last half decade on my desktops I was quite amused one day when I visited a webradio portal that had been hacked and had scare adds on it saying that soAndSo.dll was infected on my machine.
I might be wrong here but I think looking for bad files isn't actually rocket science.
Dismantling them, analyzing and countermeasuring them usually is the trickier part.
If I would have to go that route I probably would run checksum comparisons to accepted values for each file in the system.
All files that turn up in that list and are not logs/media/cache are candidates.
Then check all locations that contain files with autoexecution scripts and screen them for behavior I don't like.
After that you probably will have a lot to go on so good luck finding out what is wrong with all those files.
On the other hand you can just quarantine them (aka move into another directory), put valid files into the slots and see what stops working.
Just a thought..
This, plus the fact that scare headlines like HACKERS pwn teh Facebooks, the world as we know it is collapsing, we are all DOOMED tend to draw exponentially more attention than any alternative (albeit true) story.
One would argue that in the next generation the computer programming market will be much more mainstream than it is now.
Computer programs and automated/reprogramable devices replace legacy utilities in a day to day basis, it is not far fetched
to assume that a couple decades from now most low end jobs will be, low complexity, appliance programming instead of
hammer bashing.
After all it is documented that humans are getting better at abstract reasoning each generation, the move to a more
demanding curriculum every now and then is a necessity.
Do it now, while you still can ;-)
... html5 mobile gaming company Moblyng are doing... hint - they've shut down in the last week after spending 10 million dollars of other peoples cash.
In their defense, investors should have been expecting that. Those guys are lying to the Mob, why would they think they were earnest with them?
I don't think that the copyright demise is that near. At least not compared to all the other candidates. Take finance for example, most people want to say that the financial crisis of 2008 is over but in truth all that politicians managed to do is hide it (well, they are politicians after all). Finance will break down again and soon, most probably with the welfare sector leading the charge this time.
With governments and politicians being reluctant to do anything progressive - less so if that means going against the hands that feed you - Copyright still has a stable throne.
Also, I don't think that Copyright/Patents will ever dissolve. Most probably they will just evolve in some sort of abstract "fair compete" rules because, lets face it, total absence would mean that the giants the older system made would be given free reign to copy everyone. The problems with the patent system stem from the fact that the rules are much too literal, which in turn comes from the fact that the world wide legal system is based on the practice of following well defined rules.
It means that google is basing it's data from G+ it's own social network now. In fact google is kind of trying to lock all other social networks out lately. Not in some unfair way but I have to admit that I see google+ much more often on google related pages than on the free internet.
Example: google analytics shows social data from G+ for your sites now but I have no idea if there is a way to include social data from Facebook or Twitter aswell. Google search results give you options for G+ sharing but not for the other networks. Now this, that google is going to integrate your
G+ interactions into your search results
Google have understood that social is kind of the web3.0 and is trying really hard to become the dominant entity in social interactions
and this article is just a small part of the bigger picture.
IMO they are doing it wrong. To stay dominant in search - and let's face it that is where you go when your friends fail you - they should embrace the social Internet as a whole, not try to wall it into their own little piconet.
I am not sure if this is factually true. Even so lets assume that it is, I can think only of 3-4 FOSS developers that could actually push hard enough to get a GPL violator closed down.
The most plausible outcome I can see is him being shrugged of and ignored with the self incriminating excuse that "This SOPA thing is only meant to close video sites"
I though it was
"Raping Internet Authors Annually"
Has this even the slightest relation to the things copyright holders go to court these days? (ie: digital copies of of movies)
it's also kind of nice of them.
You know, give us all your land nice, not the other kind.
Also lets hope the Mythbuntu fork works otherwise we are doomed to a life of manically moving around our hands in order to adjust the volume on our kinect enabled windows8910 TV.
It's up to manufacturers to pick what OS their TV runs ...
Holly s*** it does sound weird.
On another note you are absolutely correct, this is just a 'sort of' prelude to the OS war that is coming to the world of the living room and will end up with the big battle over the kitchen appliances. Since, apparently, bread slicers are better when they have a GPU.
Because he is a hacktivist with no genitals?
...other than in the generic way
Ohh I can so see the Apple, Sony and Microsoft lawsuits!
Microsoft: "All yor media playorz R belong to us!"
Sony: "That's our look n feel right there!"
Apple: "You have round corners!?!?!?!"
Also it will be completely irrelevant until they get rid of that hideous brownish/pinkish coating.
It's not the 70s anymore Mark, move on!
While, that is plausible you can't ignore the fact that step no. 5 is Microsoft restores Nokia share price to older height.
How exactly would they do that?
indeed, this could be easily done with maglev tech.
In english it says that
"This is a short recording of our work in q-levitation in a project inspired by the game wipe'out"
It says that the demonstration is inspired by wipeout, not the quantum levitation research.
Also to GP who thinks this is a fake because it has a copyright disclaimer, the copyright
disclaimer apparently references to all wipe'out IP, that is music, theming, the name wipe'out etc.
Anyway, I'm not saying that this isn't a fake. But if it is a fake I cannot see the telltales.